Food Filling Systems
Sanitary & Efficient Food Filling Systems for Chunky, Semi-Viscous, & Viscous Products
Filling food products requires sanitary and reliable filling systems. Pacific Packaging Machinery offers rotary volumetric and inline fillers to ensure quick, precise filling for salad dressings, sauces, mayonnaise, nut butters, spreads, tomato sauce, and chunk products like pie fillings. Our sauce fillers and mayonnaise filling machines maintain product integrity while meeting the highest standards of safety and hygiene.
Click on the applicable topic below for details regarding our filling solutions for the Food industry:
+ Chunky
+ Light to Semi-Viscous
+ Viscous
Chunky Fillers for Relish, Syrups, Pie Filling, Tomato Sauce and more
Some examples of large chunk products include pickle relish, corn relish, strawberry syrup toppings, pie filling, tomato sauce, etc.
For applications like sauces, dressings, and chunk-filled products, the timed-orifice liquid rotary filler is specifically designed to ensure large particulates and chunks flow easily through the filling system.
We first select the appropriate pumping system to protect particulates from damage. A precise flow divider manifold ensures equal stream division and prevents clogs. As with all Pacific timed-orifice machines, our sauce fillers and mayonnaise filling machines are highly accurate, versatile, and flexible, accommodating various container sizes at different speeds with minimal cleanout and changeover time.
For lower-speed requirements, we also offer inline and drum filling machines using volumetric pumps or net weight filling filling technology.
Our top-fill nozzles with ball valves or displacement-style automatic shutoff valves ensure accuracy across all product types. For zero-drip applications, we incorporate an external vacuum-based sniffer system.
All filling systems are constructed from 316SS and other FDA, USDA, and Dairy 3A approved materials. These filling machines are designed for Clean-in-Place washing and can be integrated with our external cleaning system for high repeatable cleanliness levels.
AVAILABLE FILLING MACHINERY OPTIONS:
Product Examples
ICE CREAM TOPPINGS: Strawberry, Raspberry, Blueberry, Banana
Jams & Jellies
Pie Filling
RELISHES: Pickle, Corn, Vegetable
SAUCES: Salsa, Spaghetti, Tomato, Hot Sauce, etc.
Light to Semi-Viscous Liquids Fillers for Salad Dressings, Sauces and more
Pacific is known for designing and manufacturing fillers for salad dressings, sauces, hot sauces, and other liquid food products with similar characteristics for many years.
For this application class with higher production speeds, Pacific’s timed-orifice rotary filling machine has become the industry standard. Versatile and flexible, our salad dressing liquid filling machine is customized to accommodate a wide range of product viscosities and particulate sizes. In addition, the filling system is designed to accurately fill various container sizes, across a range of speeds, with minimal changeover time.
For customers requiring an exact ratio of oil to spice on Italian, Caesar and vinaigrette dressings, the filling machine can also be arranged for Two-Phase operation. Competing solutions require two independent filling machines — with the Pacific, two-phase applications operate on a single filling machine. This reduces floor space requirements, maintenance, cleanout time & resources, and operator personnel.
If your high-speed application does not include particulates and two-phase filling is not a requirement, our mass flow filling machine offers improved levels of cleanability.
For slower speed requirements, we also provide inline and drum filling machinery that utilize volumetric or flow meter filling technology.
Our patented top-fill nozzles with displacement style automatic shutoff valves provide accuracy across the full family of products listed below. For applications where zero drip is required, we incorporate a nozzle-based vacuum system. Many of our customers also want to fill viscous products, such as mayonnaise, on this same filling machine. For this requirement, we can arrange the same filling system with our bottom-up fill nozzles.
All of our filling systems are constructed from 316SS and other FDA, USDA and Dairy 3A approved materials. The filling machine is designed for Clean-in-Place washing and can be combined with our external cleaning system to provide high levels of repeatable cleanliness.
AVAILABLE FILLING MACHINERY OPTIONS:
Product Examples
BEVERAGES: Alcoholic, Health Drinks
CONDIMENTS: Mustard, Ketchup
OILS: Olive, Shortening, Vegetable
SALAD DRESSINGS: Blue Cheese, Ranch, Thousand, Honey Mustard, Italian, Caesar, Vinaigrette
SAUCES: Apple, BBQ, Cocktail, Dips, Pancake Batter, Salsa, Steak, Spaghetti, Tomato, Hot Sauces
SPREADS: Cheese, Sour Cream
SYRUPS: Ice Cream, Pancake, Topping
OTHERS: Honey, Vinegar, Yogurt
Viscous Fillers for Mayonnaise, Margarine, Peanut Butter, Spreads and more
In this product category, the most common viscous products include mayonnaise, margarine, peanut butter and spreads — or any product that does not flow easily.
Where higher production speeds are required, Pacific’s timed-orifice viscous rotary filler has also become an industry standard solution. The proven design originated when the company was founded in 1962. Today it remains our most simple yet accurate filling system.
The keys to filling viscous products are (1) being able to move the product easily with consistency, (2) being able to maintain a low-pressure operation throughout the filling system, and (3) placing the product into the jar without aeration pockets.
Pacific solves these design challenges by integrating a CIP’able positive displacement pump that operates at a constant speed with our rotary timed orifice. The timed-orifice manifold is custom-designed to maintain low pressure flows to our bottom-up fill nozzles. The nozzle technology is also custom-designed for special flow rates in conjunction with the camming system that guarantees the container is always in the proper position relative to the product flow.
Versatile and flexible, Pacific’s viscous fillers are customized to accommodate a wide range of filling systems. Each custom-designed machine accurately fills various container sizes across a range of speeds, with minimal changeover time.
For slower speed requirements, we also provide inline and drum filling machines that utilize volumetric pump or flow meter filling technology.
Regardless of whether an inline or rotary filler is best for your food production speed, we arrange the filling machine with our bottom-up fill, open tube nozzles. There may be cases where you also want to run semi-viscous products on the same filler. If so, we can also arrange the bottom-up fill nozzles with a positive shutoff valve to provide drip control.
All of our food filling systems are constructed from 316SS and other FDA, USDA and Dairy 3A approved materials. The filling machine is designed for Clean-in-Place washing and can be combined with our external cleaning system to provide high levels of repeatable cleanliness.
AVAILABLE FILLING MACHINE OPTIONS:
Product Examples
Cake Frosting
CREAMS: Sour Cream, Whip Cream, Cream Cheese
Mayonnaise
Margarine | Butter
Marshmallow Cream
McDonald's 'Mac Sauce
Mole Sauce
Peanut Butter
Pie Filling
Shortening